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Photo#983243
microcaddis - Hydroptila - male

microcaddis - Hydroptila - Male
Hyde Park, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
May 29, 2014
Size: 2.5 mm
On guardrail, Mother Brook at Reservation Road.

Genus ID
Based on drooping brown linear organ attached above left eye, which appears to be the "erectile organ bearing brush-like or scaly pheronomic androconia" concealed by the movable posterior valve-like cephalic wart, a generic character (F. Schmid, 1998, Genera of the Trichoptera, p. 35; fig. 57). See also Dave Ruiter's comment here.

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